Writing about creativity & productivity.

‘Management is a total career restart’

This sensation will appear at the end of the day when you ask, â€œWhat did I build today?â€ The answer will be a troubling, â€œNothingâ€. The days of fixing ten bugs before noon are gone. Youâ€™re no longer going to spend the bus ride home working on code; youâ€™re going to be thinking hard about how to say something important to someone who doesnâ€™t want to hear it. There will be drama. And there be those precious seconds when there is no one in your office wantingâ€¦ something.

When I was promoted from print designer to marketing director everything I knew changed. The above paragraph (yea Michael’s entire article) describes the learning curve of my life for the past 10 months so well it’s almost scary.